SAT Vocab #1

SAT Vocab #1

Freshman Cornerstone

congregation

(n) a crowd of people; an assembly

tenacious

(adj) determined, keeping a firm grip on

enervating

(adj) weakening or tiring

Multiple Choice

If you don't give up on something, you are..

• congregation

• tenacious

• enervating

perfidious

(adj) faithless, disloyal, or untrustworthy

inconsequential

(adj) unimportant or trivial

prudent

(adj) careful; cautious

Multiple Choice

A traitor is...

• perfidious

• Inconsequential

• prudent

impute

(v) to attribute an action to a particular person or group

jubilation

(n) joy, celebration, or exultation

resilient

(adj) quick to recover or bounce back

Multiple Choice

Someone who does not give up after trying many times is...

• jubilation

• resilient

• censure

censure

(v) to criticize harshly

camaraderie

(n) trust; sociability among friends

digression

(n) the act of straying from the main point

Multiple Choice

The teacher had another ___ when she started talking about something random.

• camaraderie

• digression

• censure

extenuating

(adj) excusing or lessening the seriousness of

rancorous

(adj) bitter or hateful

spurious

(adj) lacking authenticity

Multiple Choice

We were late due to ___ circumstances that we had no control of.

• extenuating

• rancorous

• spurious